Konami’s take on microtransacitions is a clever one. Instead of only selling bundles of songs like they did for Dance Dance Revolution Ultramix, Konami is giving DDR fans a choice. You can purchase individual songs for 100 Points each ($1.20) or save 20% buy getting the “mega pack” with ten songs for 800 points ($10). [...]

Konami’s “next-gen” dancing game, Dance Dance Revolution Universe, comes out this week for the Xbox 360. Besides online dancing and cel shaded visuals, DDR Universe has a new song list with a remixes of DDR favorites (B4U again?) and pop music from Kylie Minogue. Three video game remixes stand out in the list, one is [...]

  Konami is planning to release another version of Dance Dance Revolution SuperNOVA in the arcades, but the big surprise is their Silent Hill arcade game. Details about Silent Hill: The Arcade are scarce but it is a light gun game. As you can see in the picture past the break Konami is keeping the [...]

At Konami’s gamer day event they announced an all new DDR title, Dance Dance Revolution Hottest Party for the Wii. On top of using the dance pad players use the Wii remote and nunchuck to play the game too. Samba de DDR? Besides changing the gameplay to a full body work out, Dance Dance Revolution [...]

  Konami is about ready to release the first “next generation” DDR game on the Xbox 360. Dance Dance Revolution Universe comes out in March and it has a quest mode similar to the Dance Master mode seen in DDR Extreme 2 on the PS2. There are a total of 65 songs on the disc [...]

Not content with only having Burger King themed Xbox 360 games, Burger King worked with Konami to produce DDR toys for their BK Kids Meals. There are eight toys to collect like the “power quencher” water bottle for those long DDR workouts, a portable strobe light and foot moves mini game where you follow a [...]

A movie based about Dance Dance Revolution? It might be a reality. Recently a screenplay called Dance Dance Revolution was sold to Liddell Entertainment. The movie is a comedy about “an underdog slacker who enters the snooty world of competitive dancing.” Mickey Liddell, the executive producer of Everwood, is the producer of the film and [...]

Now in gyms, schools and in millions of homes Dance Dance Revolution is everywhere. It may appear that DDR has already saturated as much of the market as a dancing game can, but Konami has a new audience in mind, young children. Console versions of DDR require the obvious purchase of a console and a [...]

From the arcade to your home Konami brings Dance Dance Revolution SuperNOVA to the PS2. The PS2 version of Dance Dance Revolution SuperNOVA has a songlist that is quite different from the arcade version. Fall Out Boy, Armin van Buuren and Ferry Corsten bring songs into DDR SuperNOVA. The game also has a new “stellar [...]

This year Konami’s Tokyo Game Show booth is lined with three of their internally developed series: Mahjong Kakutou Club, Metal Gear Solid, and Winning Eleven. Coded Arms Assault for the PS3 will also be making an appearance along with the innovative Wii game, Elebits. Also a bunch of Bemani games will be showcased like Dance [...]

It’s hard to imagine Dance Dance Revolution without mats, but for all the players who can’t get enough of hearing Naoki Medea’s techno tracks DDR 3D is out for mobile phones. The graphics are about the same quality as a PS1 game, but who really cares about that DDR is all about the music (or [...]

Out of all the DDR clones Dance Factory is the most interesting one to date. Not because it has flashy graphics, complex mods, choreographed steps or a 1,000 page song list. What Dance Factory has going for it is that the game makes dance routines from regular audio CDs. Just pop in an audio CD [...]

Dance Dance Revolution SuperNova is coming to arcades real soon and DDR fans might be surprised to see American Idol winner Kelly Clarkson in the song wheel. Her single “Since U Been Gone” joins other Bemani songs like iFuturelist and Centerfold from Captain Jack. Maybe this is due to Konami picking up the American Idol [...]

Recently Konami slipped the word to retailers about a couple of new releases. They’ve picked the rights to Bomberman Act Zero, the “first person bomber” game for Xbox 360 and PSP. It’s slated for a release on 07.12.06. A new Castlevania game is coming out for the DS called “Portrait of Ruin” and that’s scheduled [...]